inventive

inventive is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.
2. adjective. (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action- Lewis Mumford

   "an imaginative use of material"

   "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"

   Synonyms: imaginative

Synonyms

imaginative

Common word forms

inventively, inventiveness

Words from these letters

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